From 1961-1963 held a Title VI National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship for the study of Arabic. Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Reference Tools Division, for the Hittite Dictionary in the years 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1991 and 1994.

Teaching

2000 to the present. The John A. Wilson Professor of Hittitology Emeritus at The University of Chicago.

1996 to 2000. The John A. Wilson Professor of Hittitology at The University of Chicago.

Acting Director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago from July 18 to August 18, 1997

1974-96. Professor of Hittitology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, teaching Hittite language, history and civilization.

1963-64 Instructor in Hebrew and in Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

Other Professional Experience

Senior Editor, The Hittite Dictionary of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago (2000-present).

Editor in Charge, The Hittite Dictionary of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago (1975-2000). Since 1976 the project has been partially funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

1992-2000. Member of the Editorial board of Writings From the Ancient World, sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature.

1999-2001. President of the American Oriental Society Midwest Branch

1992-1995 The University of Chicago’s Delegate to the American Research Institute in Turkey.

1995 to 2002. Consultant to the Editors of the series The Context of Scripture, being published in the Netherlands by E. J. Brill.

Professional Societies

Member, American Oriental Society, American Research Institute in Turkey, and American Schools of Oriental Research.

"The Hittites and Hurrians." In Peoples of Old Testament Times, edited by Donald J. Wiseman, 197-228. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.

"Incest, Sodomy and Bestiality in the Ancient near East." In Orient and Occident. Essays Presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., 81-90. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1973.

"Hittite Mythological Texts: A Survey." In Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient near East, edited by Hans Goedicke and J. J. M. Roberts, 136-45. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

"Propaganda and Political Justification in Hittite Historiography." In Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient near East, edited by Hans Goedicke and J. J. M. Roberts, 49-62. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1975.

"The Hurrian Story of the Sungod, the Cow and the Fisherman." In Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians in Honor of E. R. Lacheman, edited by M. Morrison and D.I. Owen, 189-94. Winona Lake, Ind.: James Eisenbraun, 1981.

"Advice to a King." In Hittite and Other Anatolian and near Eastern Studies in Honour of Sedat Alp, edited by Heinrich Otten, Ekrem Akurgal, Hayri Ertem and Aygül Süel, 295-304. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1992.

"The Last Days of Khattusha." In The Crisis Years: The 12th Century B.C. From Beyond the Danube to the Tigris, edited by William A. Ward and Martha S. Joukowsky, 46-52. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1992.

"Studies in the Hittite Particles, II: On Some Uses of -Kan." In Per Una Grammatica Ittita: Towards a Hittite Grammar, edited by Onofrio Carruba, 137-52. Pavia: IUCULANO, 1992.

"Akkadian summa immeru Texts and Their Hurro-Hittite Counterparts." In The Tablet and the Scroll. Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo, edited by Mark E. Cohen, Daniel C. Snell and David B. Weisberg, 116-19. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 1993.

"Legal and Social Institutions of Hittite Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack M. Sasson, Karen Rubinson, John Baines and Gary M. Beckman, 555-70. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995.

"From Head to Toe in Hittite." In Go to the Land I Will Show You: Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young, edited by Joseph Coleson and Victor Matthews, 247-59. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

"Appu and His Two Sons." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 153-55. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

"Crossing of the Taurus." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 184-85. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

"Deeds of Åuppiluliuma." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 185-92. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

"Hittite." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the near East, edited by Eric M. Meyers, 3:81-84. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

"The Hittite Conquest of Cyprus: Two Inscriptions of Suppiluliuma II." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 192-93. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

"The Hittite Laws." In Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Second Edition, edited by Martha T. Roth, 211-47. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

"Hittites." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the near East, edited by Eric M. Meyers, 3:84-88. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

"On Safari in Hittite Anatolia." In Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel: Part One. Ancient Languages and Philology, edited by Dorothy Disterheft, Martin Huld and John A. C. Greppin, 5-21. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 1997.

"Proclamation of Anitta of Kussar." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 182-84. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

"The Queen of Kanesh and the Tale of Zalpa." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 181-82. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

"The Sun God and the Cow." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 155-56. Leiden: Brill, 1997.